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Structure and Zero Asymptotics of Differential Operators Associated with ${\Xi}_n$ and ${\Lambda}_n$

General Mathematics 2026-04-22 v2

Abstract

We study the second-order differential operators DΞ\mathcal D_{\Xi} and DΛ\mathcal D_{\Lambda} associated with the rescaled polynomial families (Ξ~n)(\widetilde{\Xi}_n) and (Λ~n)(\widetilde{\Lambda}_n), and more generally the polynomial sequences generated by iterating these operators from an arbitrary linear initial datum cxdcx-d. We establish structural properties of DΞ\mathcal D_{\Xi} and DΛ\mathcal D_{\Lambda}, including factorizations into first-order operators, weighted divergence forms, formal self-adjointness, and hypergeometric descriptions of the corresponding formal eigenvalue equations. We also show that both operators preserve hyperbolicity, preserve zeros in (0,b)(0,b) for b1b\ge 1, and preserve proper position. For the iterated polynomial sequences, we derive explicit closed formulae in terms of the auxiliary families (Ξ~n)(\widetilde{\Xi}_n) and (Λ~n)(\widetilde{\Lambda}_n), prove strict interlacing of consecutive zeros under explicit conditions on d/cd/c, and obtain asymptotic formulae for the normalized logarithmic derivatives. As a consequence, the associated zero counting measures converge weakly to the same limiting probability measure as in the auxiliary case.

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@article{arxiv.2604.13117,
  title  = {Structure and Zero Asymptotics of Differential Operators Associated with ${\Xi}_n$ and ${\Lambda}_n$},
  author = {Luc Ramsès Talla Waffo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.13117},
  year   = {2026}
}
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